Netscape began using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) in 1994 as a means of sending sensitive data over the web. The newer edition of the service is called Transport Layer Security (TLS), although even this is routinely known by the SSL designation.
Before the introduction of SSL it was difficult to ensure privacy over the web in online transactions. There was a general distrust of the ability ...

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Since I heard the usefulness of the SSL I have ensured that my site has it but of late I am in a dilemma, hope you people here can sort this out for me. One of my hosts has the shared SSL and all the secured files are placed here and the rest are restored in the WWW, but this makes me think when someone is giving the information about the card is there any chance to it being fishing out to others? Well this just maybe a fear for me yet I am soliciting an explanation.

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